Passed Resolves; Resolves 1875, c.58, SC1/series 228, Petition of Priscilla Freeman

<p>Petition subject: Indian resources </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455159">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455159</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1875-01-04 </p> <p>Petition location: Vineyard Grove, Oak Bluffs </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles M. Peirce Jr., New Bedford; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Priscilla Freeman</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1875-01-16,1875-01-18 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1875 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 18, 1875 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: an inhabitant of the town of Tisbury in Dukes County and one of the survivors of the Deep Bottom tribe of Indians, [females of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: restoration of right to fish in Tisbury Great Pond, lease, commissioners of inland fisheries, Allen Look and others, waters, food, homestead, compensation </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1875, c.58, passed May 12, 1875 </p> <p>Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p>